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(depending on where you live, this might actually be happening…I dunno, today. Don’t look at me to calculate timezones :P)

ETA: Alright, this is Kat here going to bed, so I won’t be updating this until tomorrow morning. Just assume everyone’s started, lol. Either Sav or I will do a fresh post tomorrow with the list and such. Good night! Happy writing!

ETA: Most of us have started now!! 😀

Edit from Savannah: I made a Twitter list so if you’re on Twitter you can follow other writers participating tomorrow as we cheer each other on (or try to psych each other out, as Kat and I will be doing!). You can view and follow the list here! @ me if you’d like to be added! Tomorrow let’s use the hashtag #ltwfwordwar for our live-blog-related tweets!

ETA: We’re getting closer to the start time for those of you in Europe, I believe (again, timezones…don’t ask me), and I’m really excited about the great group we’ve got going! Anyone is free to request to be added anytime, even if the 4th has already started where you are. Just comment below!

I do want to remind everyone, though, that part of the reason we’re doing this is to get everyone writing as a group and provide encouragement to one another. So please, please, whether or not you’re participating as a writer, visit the blogs in the list below and say something nice! (unless you’re Sav or me….we’re allowed to be mean to one another ;P) This is not the time to be shy. I really hope that by the end of the day, everyone has gathered up a nice chain of comments cheering them on. For sure, I’ll be making the rounds and leaving notes as much as I can!! 🙂

So even if you’re in the US and are behind the people in Europe (or poor Jessica alone in Australia, lol..), go say nice things!! It’s good writing karma. Really.

Anyway, I dunno if you guys saw the writing war that Beth Revis and Stephanie Perkins did a little while back, but we here at LTWF thought it was pretty awesome and fun, so we decided to shamelessly steal borrow their idea for NaNo! Hopefully, they won’t mind, cause we think they’re awesome 🙂

The difference between their liveblog and this one, however, is that we’re inviting all of you!

So this is how it works (you can click on the links above to Beth and Stephanie’s blogs if you want an idea of how theirs looked like)

Savannah and I are both in US Central time, so we’ll be starting in the morning of that timezone…whenever we get up, haha. We’re waiting to see if any other LTWF folks throw down the gauntlet, but at the very least, Sav and I (Kat!) will be doing this for sure for just about the WHOLE DAY. We’ll be posting updates on our own, private blogs (you can find the links in the right-hand sidebar) every so often…as well as talking about what’s distracting us, haha.

But you, dear readers–we’re inviting YOU to join the great writing war! It doesn’t matter what time zone you’re in. You’ll just get a head start on us or get to stay up later! Post in the comments if you want to join the great End Of Week One NaNo Word War, with a link to your blog and your word count goal (if you’d like, tell us your time zone, too), and we’ll add you to the enlistment list here. Then tomorrow, we can all check out each other’s progress, leave each other sassy and sarcastic encouraging comments, and so on!

That’s an awesome idea. I’m totally down for that.
Though, in Australia, it’s already 1am Friday, so I guess I’d better get a move on 😛
My blog can be found here: http://jlewenda.livejournal.com/ and my word goal is 8,000 words.

Time zones confuse me. Is this on Friday the 4th? Because I was planning on shooting for 20k on Saturday but I have school tomorrow… would it be irresponsible of me to skip school so I can pwn you all with my epicness?
(I’m sorry, NaNo turns me into a competitive egomaniac, I’ll feel bad about that later XD)

Haha, where are you? Here in the US central time zone, it’s 12pm Thursday, November 3rd. So yes, the live blog would be tomorrow, Friday, November 4th. It is a school day…and I technically have class, too, but it’s a light day for me.

Considering your epicness, I think you could beat us all even with attending class 😉

I didn’t have plans for tomorrow did I? Well, I don’t anymore! I’ll be posting my live blog at http://fromjuliewithmixedfeelings.wordpress.com/ and I’m hoping to reach 4,000 words. I’m on UK time, so will probably be starting in a couple of hours…eek!

I don’t have a blog, but I love the motivation this will give me, and I’ll definitely pop into other people’s blogs to give some encouragement. I’ve got a class and test tomorrow (physics is a horrible, horrible thing), but put me down for 3,500. That’ll get me back on track for NaNo (I fell behind because I had to study. I repeat, physics is a horrible, horrible thing).

Basics of Twitter: Put the @symbol before someone’s username and when they view their @mentions tab it will show them what you said.

You have to view someone’s profile and click ‘follow’ for their tweets to appear in your feed.

If people follow you who are spammers, you can block them by viewing their profile, clicking on the avatar icon on the right, and clicking Block in the drop-down menu.

I’ve added you to a List. Basically anyone can form a List to classify the different people you follow. For example, on my Twitter account, I have a private one for people I personally know, so I can look at that list instead of my feed, where I might have people I followed back just to be polite. I added you to a list on the @ltwfblog account (the link at the top of this post). If you click on that list you can click ‘follow list’ using a button there.

Then, when you’re on your homepage, you can click on Lists, and click on the LTWF Word War list in the drop down menu and see people on that list.

I’m not going to be writing all day, but I still hope (and will try) to reach 3,000 words, as well as drop in a few words to you guys. 😉 I’m in Canada Eastern Time, and my blog is http://asiamorela.wordpress.com